Vol. 30, No. 48 
Congress Approves $7.5B in DOE Nuclear Cleanup Funding Under Compromise 2020 Bill
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB Would Keep 110 Full-Time Staff Under Budget Deal
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) would receive a roughly a $31 million budget for fiscal 2020, which it would have to use to employ the equivalent of at least 110 full-time staff, under a 2020 appropriations package Congress approved this week. Explanatory language appended to the bill, which President Donald Trump was set […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Energy Dept. Eyes Stand-Alone Management Contract for Savannah River Lab
The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a stand-alone contract for management of its Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management on Wednesday issued a request for information/sources sought notice for management and operations of the government lab, which currently operates under the full Savannah River Site (SRS) contract. […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Hanford Contract Debriefs Wait Until the New Year
The U.S. Energy Department debriefings on two major contract awards announced this month at the Hanford Site in Washington state will wait until January, two sources said this week. On Dec. 12, Central Plateau Cleanup Co., comprised of AECOM, Fluor, and Atkins affiliates, won the potential 10-year, $10 billion contract for ongoing remediation of Hanford’s […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Bids for Energy Dept. Nationwide Deactivation Contract Due in February
The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday issued its final request for proposals (RFP) for the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Removal contract, which could be worth up to $3 billion over 10 years. The first of what is expected to be many task orders under the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract would cover removal for an excess […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Draft RFP for Idaho Cleanup Could Be Out Soon
A draft request for proposals for a new cleanup contract at the U.S. Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) could be released within weeks, according to a new procurement notice. The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management said in a Dec. 11 notice on a federal procurement website that the draft document should be issued […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
GAO Seeks More Efficient Management of 3 Gaseous Diffusion Plants
The U.S. Government Accountability Office wants the Department of Energy to fulfill a 2007 pledge to manage three former uranium enrichment plants in an integrated manner. The DOE Office of Environmental Management is supervising cleanup of retired facilities in Piketon, Ohio, Paducah, Ky., and Oak Ridge, Tenn., as three independent sites, which is costly and […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Strategic Management Solutions Loses Protest Over Portsmouth/Paducah Tech Support
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday denied a bid protest over a five-year, $137 million contract issued to a Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) affiliate to provide technical support to the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO). A rival bidder, Strategic Management Solutions Inc. (SMSI), filed its initial protest on Sept. 9, followed […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Still No Word From DOE on Oak Ridge Remediation Contract
While the clock ticks down on 2019, the U.S. Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has yet to issue a draft request for proposals for a new remediation contract for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. The agency said in a July procurement notice it planned to issue the draft RFP within 60 days, which […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Hanford Waste Contractor Wins 94%, Lab Vendor 89% in Latest DOE Scorecards
For the second straight year, AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) earned more than 90% of its fee for its performance as the radioactive tank waste manager at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The WRPS scorecard was one of two issued this week for Hanford vendors. Wastren Advantage (now part of […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Prospects Dim for Dust Devils, Hanford’s Hometown Ballclub
Major League Baseball has proposed abandoning its affiliation with a fixture of the community that is home to the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state: the Tri-City Dust Devils Minor League Baseball club. The news broke around Thanksgiving that Major League Baseball (MLB) wanted to end its affiliation with 42 minor league franchises. […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: Veolia to Build Facility to Control Runoff from Portsmouth X-326 Building Demolition
Veolia has won a contract to build what it describes as a “water detention” facility at the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Veolia Nuclear Solutions-Federal Services said Tuesday that DOE vendor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth has awarded it a subcontract to build a system to contain any runoff from demolition of the X-326 process building […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
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